strangified

Verb

strangify (third-person singular simple present strangifies, present participle strangifying, simple past and past participle strangified)

1. (transitive) To make strange or exotic.
   • In 1970, Nabokov specifically took issue with an attempt critically to explicate his work within this Russian formalist matrix, arguing: "What doesn't make strange, estrange, strangify in a book , if the author is a genuine artist? No, leave those terms alone. Avoid textbook truth"2002, Paul Giles, Virtual Americas, page 313
2. (transitive) To extend so as to be accessible to others; to universalize.
   • If I want to make myself understandable to you, I need to strangify my discourse into your language. If I want to make my ideals universally 'practiceable', I cannot force you to practice it in my social context; I need to strangify my ideals into your social context.2007, Zhao Dunhua, Dialogues of Philosophies, Religions and Civilizations in the Era of Globalization, page 201